Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
Following on my several readings of the use and misuse of history regarding the American Civil war (The Half Has …
Following on my several readings of the use and misuse of history regarding the American Civil war (The Half Has …
World War Two is, as we all know, “the Good War,” and those who fought it, “The Greatest Generation.” In …
A quick note to applaud Will Smith’s “Amend: The Fight for America” now on Netflix. A very well done six …
Walk the streets of Berlin, or any other German city, and you will not see a statue or any other …
Vasily Grossman, (Ukrainian-Soviet, 1905–1964,) may be the world’s least known colossal writer. His short fiction, his stupendous novels, his moral …
If Vasily Grossman‘s great novel, Life and Fate (1980) lacks many millions of readers to catch Tolstoy’s War and Peace …
Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where …
Missing in almost all war fiction, from the time of Gilgamesh (2800 BCE) on, is the recognition that war …
War
War stories since The Iliad ( 8th century BCE) have been told to fascinate and celebrate physical courage, mental …
Pride in our ancestors, and countrymen is common in stories we tell each other, of their hard work, sacrifice …
THE RECENT SURGE OF INTEREST in graphic novels, with roots in the Underground Comix of the 1960s has not …